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SUPPORTED DISCS AND FORMATS
• The DVD player can play the following picture disc
formats: Fuji Color CD, Kodak Picture CD. It can also
play JPEG files stored on CD-R/RW discs and USB
storage devices. Some picture discs may not be
playable due to the way in which they were recorded,
etc.
• Baseline JPEG files and Exif 2.2 JPEG files with a
resolution of up to 3,072 x 2,048 are supported. (Exif,
which stands for Exchangeable Image File, is the
format used by digital cameras to store metadata.)
• Progressive JPEG files are not supported.
• Only JPEG files with a .jpg/.JPG file extension are
recognized.
• Each disc may contain up to 299 folders, and each
folder may contain a combination of up to 648 files and
folders. However, depending the folder organization,
not all folders and files may be recognized and
playable.
DivX
®
media technology was developed by DivX, Inc. It
uses compression to fit movies and video content onto CD
and DVD discs at high quality. It supports interactive
features such as menus, subtitles, and multiple language
soundtracks. Like DVD-Video, individual DivX
®
files are
referred to as
titles
.
The DVD player can play DivX
®
files stored on the
recordable CD and DVD media listed in “Recordable disc
compatibility” (
p.47). When naming DivX
®
files prior
to burning to disc, be aware that DivX
®
files stored on a
disc are played in alphabetical order.
• The DVD player is an official DivX
®
Ultra Certified
product and can play all versions of DivX
®
video
(including DivX
®
6) with enhanced playback of
DivX
®
media files and the DivX
®
Media Format.
• The DVD player can play DivX
®
files stored on CD-R/
RW discs and CD-ROM discs, but not USB storage
devices.
• Only DivX
®
encoded files with a .avi or .divx file
extension are recognized.
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Using external subtitle files
DivX
®
movies use special files called
external subtitle
files
for displaying subtitles. The font sets listed below are
available for use with external subtitle files. Use the
Subtitle Language setting on page 40 to select the font/
language that matches the external subtitle file.
The DVD player supports the following language groups:
Notes
• Some external subtitle files may not display correctly, and some
may not display at all.
• Only external subtitle files with a .srt, .sub, .ssa, or .smi file
extension are recognized. (Note that these files are not
displayed by Disc Navigator.)
• The file name of the external subtitle file must start with the file
name of its associated movie file.
• A single movie may have up to 10 external subtitle files.
WMV, which stands for
Windows Media Video
, is a video
compression technology developed by Microsoft
Corporation. Video content can be encoded in WMV
format by using the Windows Media Encoder.
• The DVD player supports WMV9 files that were
encoded with the Windows Encoder 9 Series.
• The DVD player can play WMV files stored on CD-R/
RW discs, but not USB storage devices.
• Only WMV9 files with a .wmv file extension are
recognized.
• Video resolutions up to 720 x 480 or 720 x 576 are
supported.
• The maximum average bit rate is about 2–3 Mbps. (The
maximum bit rate depends on the encoding
conditions.)
• Advanced Profile is not supported.
• Files with DRM (Digital Rights Management) cannot
be played.
JPEG files
About DivX
®
Group 1
Albanian (sq), Basque (eu), Catalan (ca), Danish
(da), Dutch (nl), English (en), Faroese (fo),
Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Icelandic
(is), Irish (ga), Italian (it), Norwegian (no),
Portuguese (pt), Rhaeto-Romanic (rm), Scottish
(gd), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv)
Group 2
Albanian (sq), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs),
Hungarian (hu), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro),
Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl)
Group 3
Bulgarian (bg), Byelorussian (be), Macedonian
(mk), Russian (ru), Serbian (sr), Ukrainian (uk)
Group 4
Hebrew (iw), Yiddish (ji)
Group 5
Turkish (tr)
About WMV